[REBOL] Re: VID Extension Kit
From: tim-johnsons:web at: 29-Aug-2009 15:27
* david may <david.may10-ntlworld.com> [090829 13:14]:
> do many people use it today ?, or are most people on the net still
> advocating and writing Python or indeed anything But rebol for their
> and the majority of average peoples GUI video related scripting needs
> today!
I prefer rebol for much of what I do - but read on:
Not meant to be an argument but a statement of policy. My
company's mission statement is about open source. Based on the
more proprietory nature of the vid dialect, I have never used
rebol/view. in the 10 years that I have been programming in
rebol. Just rebol/core. My partner and I have agreed that we will
use open source libraries for GUI applications. Therefore, it is
in our agreement that he (primarily a perl programmer) and I
(rebol, python, newlisp, javascript) will use (as an example
TKinter). And we've done precious little of that since we have
found (for our work) that html and javascript and CGI can do what
we need to do for our customers, in terms of interfaces.
I have no argument with the rebol components that are closed
source. That is Carl Sassenrath's Business plan :) and that's his
business. But my business is with Open Source as much as is
possible. I can recall some pretty spirited ( :) but never
mean-spirited) exchanges on the topic of Open Source here on this
ML. I'm just happy to have rebol for the uses that I put it to.
It is a thing of beauty.
regards.
--
Tim
tim-johnsons-web.com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
